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Author: Shea M. Dunham Publisher: ISBN: Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 163
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"The decline in African Americans choosing to marry and the increase in African Americans deciding to divorce (U.S. Census, 2003) are juxtaposed against a dearth of research on African American Marriage and marital intervention models specifically tested with African Americans. Cordova and his associates attempted to expand on the 'fuzziness' of definitions of intimacy in marital research with their behavioral theory of intimacy (Cordova & Scott, 2001). They expanded this view into a model, Emotional Skillfulness Theory, of how specific emotional skills, intimacy, and marital satisfaction are related (Cordova, Gee, & Warren, 2005). Cordova, Gee, and Warren's (2005) study exploring emotional skillfulness and subsequent studies supported the basics of this model. However, like much research in the marital field, these studies were done with a predominantly Caucasian sample. The current study examined emotional skillfulness theory and the possible impact emotional skillfulness may have on martial satisfaction and the intimacy process among African Americans. Emotional skills were defined by the ability to identify and communicate emotions. Specifically, the differences between husbands' and wives' scores on measures of emotional skills, the relationship between participants' self-perceived emotional skills and one's own intimate safety and marital satisfaction, and whether intimate safety mediates between emotional skills and marital satisfaction. Two hundred and sixty four participants (132 married couples) completed measures that assessed emotional skillfulness, marital satisfaction, and intimate safety. The results supported much of Emotional Skillfulness Theory with African American couples. No significant differences were found between husbands' and wives' scores on Difficulty Identifying Emotions and Difficulty Communicating Emotions. For both husbands and wives one's own Difficulty Identifying Emotions was negatively correlated with spouses' marital satisfaction and Intimate Safety. Husbands' Difficulty Communicating Emotions was also negatively correlated to wives' Marital Satisfaction and Intimate Safety; Wives' Difficulty Communicating Emotions was negatively correlated with husbands' marital satisfaction, but was not significantly associated with husbands' Intimate Safety. Finally, it was found that Intimate Safety mediated between emotional skills and marital satisfaction."--Abstract.
Author: Shea M. Dunham Publisher: ISBN: Category : African Americans Languages : en Pages : 163
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"The decline in African Americans choosing to marry and the increase in African Americans deciding to divorce (U.S. Census, 2003) are juxtaposed against a dearth of research on African American Marriage and marital intervention models specifically tested with African Americans. Cordova and his associates attempted to expand on the 'fuzziness' of definitions of intimacy in marital research with their behavioral theory of intimacy (Cordova & Scott, 2001). They expanded this view into a model, Emotional Skillfulness Theory, of how specific emotional skills, intimacy, and marital satisfaction are related (Cordova, Gee, & Warren, 2005). Cordova, Gee, and Warren's (2005) study exploring emotional skillfulness and subsequent studies supported the basics of this model. However, like much research in the marital field, these studies were done with a predominantly Caucasian sample. The current study examined emotional skillfulness theory and the possible impact emotional skillfulness may have on martial satisfaction and the intimacy process among African Americans. Emotional skills were defined by the ability to identify and communicate emotions. Specifically, the differences between husbands' and wives' scores on measures of emotional skills, the relationship between participants' self-perceived emotional skills and one's own intimate safety and marital satisfaction, and whether intimate safety mediates between emotional skills and marital satisfaction. Two hundred and sixty four participants (132 married couples) completed measures that assessed emotional skillfulness, marital satisfaction, and intimate safety. The results supported much of Emotional Skillfulness Theory with African American couples. No significant differences were found between husbands' and wives' scores on Difficulty Identifying Emotions and Difficulty Communicating Emotions. For both husbands and wives one's own Difficulty Identifying Emotions was negatively correlated with spouses' marital satisfaction and Intimate Safety. Husbands' Difficulty Communicating Emotions was also negatively correlated to wives' Marital Satisfaction and Intimate Safety; Wives' Difficulty Communicating Emotions was negatively correlated with husbands' marital satisfaction, but was not significantly associated with husbands' Intimate Safety. Finally, it was found that Intimate Safety mediated between emotional skills and marital satisfaction."--Abstract.
Author: Patricia Dixon Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135916748 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 301
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African American Relationships, Marriages, and Families is a historically and culturally centered text designed for relationship, marriage and family educators and therapists who work with African American singles and couples. Complete with numerous exercises, the book helps singles and couples increase their self-awareness, partner awareness and respect, and appreciation for difference. It also helps foster effective communication and conflict resolution skills, showing readers how to develop and maintain healthy relationships, marriages, and families. No ground is left uncovered in Dixon’s thoughtful and considered analysis.
Author: Katherine M. Helm Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136731083 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 322
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This exciting new text on counseling African American couples outlines critical components to providing culturally-sensitive treatment. Built around a framework that examines African American couples’ issues as well as the specific contextual factors that can negatively impact their relationships, it: • Addresses threats to love and intimacy for Black couples • Provides culturally relevant, strengths-based approaches and assessment practices • Includes interesting case studies at the conclusion of each chapter that illustrate important concepts. The chapters span the current state of couple relationships; readers will find information for working with lesbians and gays in relationships, pastoral counseling, and intercultural Black couples. There is also a chapter for non-Black therapists who work with Black clients. Dispersed throughout the book are interviews with prominent African American couples’ experts: Dr. Chalandra Bryant, relationship expert Audrey B. Chapman, Dr. Daryl Rowe and Dr. Sandra Lyons-Rowe, and Dr. Thomas Parham. They provide personal insight on issues such as the strengths African Americans bring to relationships, their skills and struggles, and gender and class considerations. This must-read book will significantly help you and your clients.
Author: Keith E. Whitfield Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: 9780787955519 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 0
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Fighting for Your African American Marriage gives you solid solutions to the challenges your marriage faces every day. The book contains a unique perspective and presents the powerful, proven strategies of the highly acclaimed PREP(Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program) approach for helping black couples beat the odds and master the skills that can prevent marital distress and divorce.
Author: Anita Doreen Diggs Publisher: Kensington Books ISBN: Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 294
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In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Vera S. Paster, a marriage counselor and therapist, and Anita Doreen Diggs, author of The African American Resource Guide, help African American couples cope with all of the pressures on their marriage and guide them in re-discovering the joy, intimacy and passion of their relationship. Dr. Paster discusses the difficulties African American couples face, including white collar women marrying blue collar men; the problems of blended families; bringing aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents back into your life; the stereotype of black male as king; the heartbreak of depression, addiction, abuse and adultery; and many other important issues. In her warm, down-to-earth style, she reveals the steps that every couple must take to overcome these difficulties and put their marriage on solid footing. By showing black couples how to draw on the unique strengths of their forefathers, she gives husbands and wives the traditional tools they need to get through the tough times. In addition, she offers suggestions on what not to bring up in an argument, 50 ways to enhance your marriage, using community activism and church involvement to bring you closer together, and much more. A unique book that answers all of your questions and concerns, STAYING MARRIED is a wise voice to help you successfully build a loving relationship that will last a lifetime.
Author: Marjorie A. Nightingale Publisher: ISBN: Category : African American couples Languages : en Pages : 0
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Racism is a public health crisis for African Americans in the United States. Negative racial experiences compounded over the lifespan create a racial trauma resembling Post Traumatic Stress Disorder driving multiple physiological and mental disparities. Racial trauma has been linked with alarming declines in African American marriage, and increasing rates of distressed relational functioning, yet culturally relevant interventions for this population remain elusive. This exploratory study examines the feasibility of utilizing a culturally adapted Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American couple sample. Results show that the treatment was acceptable with significant improvements in relationship distress, attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance for couples. Results also show significant reductions in levels of stress, and racial stress for women from pretest to posttest. There were no significant changes in emotional regulation or relationship satisfaction for couples, and no changes in levels of stress or racial stress for men.
Author: Christina Nicole Clarke Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 292
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There is no clear definition of emotional intimacy in the literature (Yoo, Bartle-Haring, Day, and Gangamma, 2014). Furthermore, the specific area of African American relationships has received minimal attention and is typically deficit-based (Bryant, Wickrama, Bolland, Bryant, Cutrona, and Stanik, 2010). The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of married, African American couples, and the role of emotional intimacy in their relationships. The research questions are: How do African American couples in this study experience and describe emotional intimacy in their relationships? and How do African American couples in this study sustain emotional intimacy in their long-term relationships? This is a qualitative constructionist multiple case study (Yin, 2014) that is exploratory in nature with each couple being one case. Three couples were interviewed individually and conjointly. Braun and Clarke's (2006) thematic analysis was used to analyze within and across-cases. The cross-case themes identified across all three couples are separated into two sections based on the research questions. Section 1 provides themes on describing emotional intimacy. Two themes and one subtheme were yielded: (a) Vulnerability; (b) Connection, subtheme: More than roommates. Section 2 provides themes on sustaining emotional intimacy. Four themes were yielded: (a) embracing community strengths; (b) the couple as a haven; (c) increasing emotional expression through personal growth; (d) committing to the work. The four themes identified in the cross-case analysis provide the beginnings of a model on emotional intimacy and African American couples. This study was able to identify how couples experience and sustain emotional intimacy in the face of negative narratives named in the interviews. Those negative narratives undermine the vulnerability required to maintain emotional intimacy. However, the couples processed multiple ways in which they take measures to experience and sustain emotional intimacy.
Author: Paul T. Guillory Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000417492 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 212
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Emotionally Focused Therapy with African American Couples: Love Heals is an essential guide that integrates emotionally focused therapy (EFT) with cultural humility. It provides a pathbreaking, evidence-based model of couples work that reinforces the bond between partners in the face of race-based distress. Guillory explores and brings a deep understanding of the legacy of racial trauma, and the cultural strengths of African American couples by using real-life case studies. The chapters in the book focus on several key clinical issues in the field, such as communication problems, anxiety, infidelity, depression, and porn. Each case study is enhanced by a consultation with EFT master therapist Sue Johnson. The book is an essential text for students and mental health professionals looking to provide culturally competent therapeutic interventions. It will also appeal to psychologists, mental health workers, social workers, marriage and family therapists, and religious leaders.
Author: M. Belinda Tucker Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation ISBN: 1610445376 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 422
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In a time when the American family has undergone dramatic evolution, change among African Americans has been particularly rapid and acute. African Americans now marry later than any other major ethnic group, and while in earlier decades nearly 95 percent of black women eventually married, today 30 percent are expected to remain single. The black divorcee rate has increased nearly five-fold over the last thirty years, and is double the rate of the general population. The result, according to The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans, is a greater share of family responsibilities being borne by women, an increased vulnerability to poverty and violence, and an erosion of community ties. The original, often controversial, research presented in this book links marital decline to a pivotal drop in the pool of marriageable black males. Increased joblessness has robbed many black men of their economic viability, rendering them not only less desirable as mates, but also less inclined to take on the responsibility of marriage. Higher death rates resulting from disease, poor health care, and violent crime, as well as evergrowing incarceration rates, have further depleted the male population. Editors M. Belinda Tucker and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and the contributors take a hard look at the effects of chronic economic instability and cultural attitudes toward the male role as family provider. Their cogent historical analyses suggest that the influence of external circumstances over marriage preferences stems in large part from the profoundly damaging experience of slavery. This book firmly positions declining marriage within an ominous cycle of economic and social erosion. The authors propose policies for relieving the problems associated the changing marital behavior, focusing on support for single parent families, public education, and increased employment for African American men.
Author: Joyce J. Auld Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1449073646 Category : African American families Languages : en Pages : 158
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Brings together research studies and articles on the crisis of marriage and relationships in the African American community. The author takes a look at: when and why the unions started to fall apart; the covenant of marriage; communication; the effect of stepfamilies and step-parenting on a marital relationship; and the African American woman and marriage--Back cover.
Author: Shea M. Dunham
Author: Shea M. Dunham
Author: Patricia Dixon
Author: Katherine M. Helm
Author: Keith E. Whitfield
Author: Anita Doreen Diggs
Author: Marjorie A. Nightingale
Author: Christina Nicole Clarke
Author: Paul T. Guillory
Author: M. Belinda Tucker
Author: Joyce J. Auld